Commentary
In Idaho this fall, farmer Steve Jarvis had more than 20,000 pounds of potatoes still in the ground. Out of 50,000 pounds he planted, 15,000 had been harvested, another 15,000 were eaten by deer and elk, and 20,000 remain buried under the dirt. They are too expensive to dig up and too cheap to sell. After a full year of backbreaking labor alongside his wife and children, their total profit came to just $485. That is what the end of American farming looks like, not a headline or a protest, but quiet exhaustion on land that once fed towns.
